Essay On The Ethics Of Cloning

The Ethics of Cloning
Cloning is one of the greatest questions of science. Is it possible? Can we clone humans? Can we create a soldier army of perfect clones? These are the questions that people have been asking. What is cloning? This would probably be a good place to start. Cloning is, “the genetic duplication of an existing organism especially by transferring the nucleus of a somatic cell of the organism into an enucleated oocyte” (Medical-Dictionary)It’s like this say you have a television set and you make another television set exactly like it, you could say they are a clone of one another. However, making a clone of a living being is a lot harder. If we could make a complete clone of another human being, that would be a huge scientific breakthrough. There are two types of major cloning. The first is reproductive cloning. The second being therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning is taking an animal cell and making a genetic copy of it. Scientists have cloned several animals this way. The most outstanding creature that has been cloned was Dolly the sheep. Dolly …show more content…
Is it moral? No, I personally do not believe in artificial human cloning. While identical twins are “natural clones”, I still do not think we should artificially clone people. It would ruin the God given sense of human individuality. If human cloning were to occur, would that “human” have a soul? The truth is I have no idea. I do not know whether they’d be the next television personality or a human vegetable. It’s too risky to try to make a human artificially. So many potential people will die in the process; it’s unethical. There are some things that God does not want humans to accomplish, such as the tower of Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel were trying to prove how “great” man was, God confused their languages and the project completely failed. Man wants to prove how great they are by defying God. Man was not meant to clone other